Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Time to Buy Apple Again? Google Pulls YouTube Support From 100 Million Older iPhones and iPads - Forbes; Is Cuba Open for Business? There's a Long Road Ahead; 5 Things EVERY Brand Needs To Succeed; Stop and Instagram the Roses: A Problem with Busyness in Marketing; Who millennials trust, and don't trust, is driving the new economy; Meaningful brands don’t make claims, they keep promises… and Don’t Be “Nice.” Be Instrumental.

The stock market on Monday was quite impressive as the advancing stocks led the declining ones by over a 2-1 margin. The 1.69% gain in the Dow Transports and the 1.51% rally in the Nasdaq 100 was an encouraging sign after Friday’s...

Telephones! For talking! They’re terrible, antiquated technology I hope we abandon someday to psychic brain implants. But phone assistance is still mandatory, especially in IT and tech support, and we know some of you have had...

By PricewaterhouseCoopers' projection, the biggest sectors of the "sharing economy" - including transportation and travel companies like Uber, Zipcar and Airbnb - could be pulling in as much as $335 billion in global revenue by 2025.

Hamstrung by legacy technology? Are IT and marketing always squabbling? Those are signs you need a chief digital officer. And even retailers that can't afford a CDO, can take steps to up their digital game.

Today’s most innovative and successful brands seek to forge meaningful connections with people, not solely through products or marketing claims, but through the added idea of purpose-beyond-profit. Meaningful brands...